On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 03:46:05PM -0700, Andy Ritger wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:24:33AM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote: > > Sorry to hijack this thread, but there's an egregious, long-standing bug > > in your driver with regards to vgaarb usage: nvidia/nv.c calls > > vga_tryget() but never calls vga_put(), in other words your driver locks > > legacy VGA I/O but never unlocks it. This is in the proprietary, non-MIT > > licensed portion of your driver. > > > > The bug was already reported to Nvidia four years ago: > > https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/545560 > > > > It causes issues such as deadlocks or inability to control backlight > > on MacBook Pros, commit 4eebd5a4e726 tried to work around it but > > introduced more problems. > > > > Could you please look into fixing that bug? Thanks! > > Thanks for pointing that out. Yes, we'll take a look. Andy, eight months have passed and this bug is still present in your latest driver version 387.34. Could you please provide an ETA for a fix? Thanks, Lukas _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
